A sea of red tile roofs in Siena, Tuscany…

The black and white striped Duomo stands in stark contrast, with stones carried to town by hand.

The unfinished nave on the left would have made it the largest church, but the plague interrupted those plans.

(originally a cell phone postcard from the road)

16 responses to “major duomo”

  1. bravo to them

    survives the ages

    cool technology…

  2. Tuscan hill towns are on my list of to-do’s. Nice shot.

  3. wow… I’ve been there, but not from this angle!
    love the patchwork of rooftops 🙂

  4. bellissimo scatto,
    complimenti!

    ..:: seen on Explore ::..

  5. It’s lovely! Needs more contrast but can’t excpect much from unedited phonecamera.

  6. Taken from above Il Campo I presume. Great title. And great gelato just up the lower right side if memory serves. :^)

  7. Plagues can be so inconvenient.

  8. > The unfinished nave on the left (with people on top of the arch) would
    > have made it the largest church, but the plague interrupted those plans.

    Will they never learn ?

    Genesis 101: 4-8

    4: And they said, Go to, let us build us a temple, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

    5: And the Lord came down to see the temple, which the children of men built.

    6: And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one purpose; and worship a false idol: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

    7: Go to, let us go down, and send the pestilence among them.

    8: So the Lord smote them, and there was a great cry in Tuscia.

  9. Hope you went to San Gimignano?!

  10. Thanks for the suggestion! Going there now.

    Nhr: is that for real? A prophesy!

    Dro!d: yes. I found myself at the top of the tower with 4 cameras. Got some great HDR shots, but that will have to wait til I get internet connectivity…

  11. @Tomi Tapio: I boosted the contrast for ya… 😉

    Best viewed large

  12. > is that for real? A prophecy!

    Yup. But stubborn idolaters of the Christian persuasion will probably claim that Genesis 101 is but Apocryphal…

  13. Great shot – thanks for taking me back there.

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